I have full-blown Dish installation (HD, local channels, multiple receivers etc.)at home, want to take a Dish receiver rom home on the road. I got a separate portable Dish antenna w/ dual LNBs, and have tried (unsuccessfully) to tune it at home with one of our receivers. I get signals from 110 and 119, but only 110 programming. I have run checkswitch, tried resetting the receiver, etc. but can't get the receiver to move from 110 and pick up both satellites programming. I get the 119 signal with a "wrong satellite" message when I try to tune to 119 as the primary satellite. Help!!
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Make sure you are setting up for dish-500 on your receiver, Then make sure the mast is plumb, pre-set elevation and skew per the suggestions the receiver gives you when you enter the zip code. Note which bird it wishes to peak on and put a tin-foil hat over the WRONG LNB (IE: If it wants to peak on 110, put had on 119 LNB 119 is the one on the more eastern side of the arm)
Peak, remove tin-foil, run check switch
NOTE: NASA is on 119
If your local stations are on 119.. you may or may not get them due to how far you are from home.. National network stations (DNS) are on 119 and those will work nation wide.
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I'm set to 500 on the receiver, get signals from both 110 and 119, but can't get programming from 119. I'm actually on the porch of my house, so I'm only about 50-60 feet away from the roof-mounted dish for our home service. I'll try the tin-foil hat on the 110 LNB to see if I can force it to acquire 119 and see what happens. Any further suggestions greatly appreciated...
One of the reasons we dropped dish. This was getting frustrating and after a nigh in light rain trying to get it worked out I gave up on them.
Normally it took a check switch to fix. Sometimes the LNBs were not pointing at the right satellites so we would have to use some foil to cover one LNB and make sure it was locking on the right bird.
I just purchased an extra dish 500 to carry with me. When I was trying to setup for the first time, I had the same problem. I talked to the guy I got it from, he's an installer, he came by and tried also. Was still having the same problem, only lock on 110, not 119. I made the suggestion that maybe the cable was hooked up on the wrong fitting on the LNB. He said no, it didn't matter which fitting it was on. The stand I was building was not complete, just had to test before I was finished.(no patience on my part) So he suggested that I finish and get it perfectly level then try. After he left, I switched the cable to the middle fitting and it came right in first try.
So, I am not an expert, not sure if it was just dumb luck or it made a difference as to which fitting on the LNB I used. But it worked great after that.
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Thanks for the input. I've got to wait until the wind dies down to try again (stupid tripod blows over, nothing to anchor it to on the porch), but I will switch the cable to another input, although it's on the second one I've tried so far. We currently have Direct TV on the camper, but paying $60 a month whether we use it or not. It's a piece of cake to set Direct up, and if we weren't under contract to Dish for another 18 months it would be a no-brainer. Direct will let us suspend service once a year, but it's rare we don't use the camper for months at a time.
Thanks, but it's one of those dinky Camping World tripods w/out enough room between the base and the ground for much of an anchor. Works great with Direct TV and bungees in camp, though.
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